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to have a clear idea of
an imaginative genius like Shakespeare could intuit the thoughts, feelings, and motives of a vast array of characters
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Recent Examples of intuited
Is there a chance the markets collectively intuited that this could prove to be the last-ever oil shock?
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
The Knicks understood when to hold back and intuited when to become aggressive.
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Fred Katz,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
And yet, as a prophet of capitalism, in the regimented ballet of the pin-makers Smith intuited Henry Ford’s assembly line, of how the entire world would become subservient to manufacturing and finance.
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Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process.
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Erica Rex,
STAT,
19 Feb. 2026
Advertisement The leaders of the communist and Nazi parties—both hostile to Germany’s democratic institutions, albeit for different reasons—understood, or intuited, that political violence could erode democracy itself.
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Time,
23 Oct. 2025
Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington.
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John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
There’s deeper meaning to some of the other imagery in the music video than might first be intuited by viewers.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
5 Oct. 2025
Or the way his hips flip to the exact angle his brain intuited.
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Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
31 Aug. 2025
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
The Knicks understood when to hold back and intuited when to become aggressive.
—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
And yet, as a prophet of capitalism, in the regimented ballet of the pin-makers Smith intuited Henry Ford’s assembly line, of how the entire world would become subservient to manufacturing and finance.
—
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process.
—
Erica Rex,
STAT,
19 Feb. 2026
Advertisement The leaders of the communist and Nazi parties—both hostile to Germany’s democratic institutions, albeit for different reasons—understood, or intuited, that political violence could erode democracy itself.
—
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington.
—
John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
There’s deeper meaning to some of the other imagery in the music video than might first be intuited by viewers.
—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
5 Oct. 2025
Or the way his hips flip to the exact angle his brain intuited.
—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuited
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Many of us have long understood that putting your country’s main creative engine inside a techno-dominant machine was probably never going to end well for creativity.
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For reasons that aren't yet fully understood, the results sometimes differ from previous events.
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Dominion sued the businessman in 2021, alleging that Lindell knew there was no evidence to support his election conspiracy theories, but used the lies to sell pillows.
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Their agents also knew this and assuredly would have shared that risk assessment with their clients (especially for Veesaar and Evans, both of whom are repped by The Team — formerly Wasserman — an agency that sent multiple potential first-round picks back to school this draft cycle).
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Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.
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The signature was deciphered with the help of AI, and specialists at auction house Lyon & Turnbull were able to confirm that Cadell was the artist.
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The Chicago White Sox recognized their division-winning 1983 club with several members from that team on the field before Saturday’s game against the Kansas City Royals.
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Related Stories With this recognition, announced as the seven-day event wrapped on June 27 with its prize ceremony, Colombia joins the ranks of Japan, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Mexico and Brazil, all previously recognized as countries of honor.
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The company expects a little more of an impact in its Q2, but Cook said it’s fully comprehended in the above Street outlook of 48% to 49%.
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The tick should be grasped as close to the skin's surface as possible and pulled upward with steady, even pressure.
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The correct response cannot be grasped, only meditated upon in the way of a koan used to train Zen Buddhist monks and force them into enlightenment.
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Moving a blade back and forth to try to saw biscuits apart will make their layers stick (and ruin the rise).
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Ruggeri says that, in comparison to saw palmetto, which gets far more attention.
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Yet Wall Street hasn’t appreciated that for quite a long time.
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Since then, Roberts, who will also manage the NL All-Star team, has appreciated how diligent Pages has remained in his routine.
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